Communication 544/15 - European Alliance for Human Rights (AED) and 3 Others v.
Arab Republic of Egypt
Summary of the Complaint
als The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the
Secretariat) received a Complaint on 12 January 2015 from European Alliance for
Human Rights (AED), Professor Dr Ahmed Ja
mmed Al-Haj and Dr Amir
Mohammad Bassam Mahmoud Youssef (thi
larrests and disregard for fair trial
aimed at punishing those who
esulting in many of them fleeing the Country.
ctuals face arrest upon their return.
sities andesearch centres have been assaulted and killed and
om their jobs, without the proper procedures being followed.
The Complainants aver that some members of some faculties have been
imprisoned.
The Complainants submit that the Coup authorities have been trying to control
the work of the academic community, especially on the World Wide Web, where
they are reported of spying on people on Facebook.
The Complainants affirm that they have official reports issued in April 2014 from
of universities against the Coup,
academic freedoms in Egypt.
which
document
the violations of
1 Egypt ratified the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on 20 March 1984.
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